America is a fucking police state.People standing onescalators! And that is a testimony to humanlaziness! I mean, the guy who invented the escalator is just, probably, kicking himself in the ass. Do you think the guy made the escalator so people—and they're made likestairs—just so people stand on it so you go up and down? You're supposed towalk on 'em so you get therefaster. You know? And then people stand on there.If youhear asong you like, startdancing. That's what I do, I'll just start dancing, and that's it. That's all there is to it.I'm a, what, ananarcho-capitalistsocialist…I don't know…I'm kinda amoderate, I think I'm moderate. … I mean I'm agun-owningpacifist, so there you go.
Ivoted last week, and everything I voted for was defeated. I voted for less police stationmoney and against adding more courtrooms. The guy I voted for, a congressman, lost big time because he's totally anti-military. He wanted to cut theCIAbudget! He's really cool. But he lost.
As quoted in "Take The Money and Run",Sounds (27 December 1990), interviewed by Keith Cameron on 23 September 1990[1]
America is a fucking police state.
As quoted inNew Musical Express (12 November 1991)[2]
Did you know that the biggest—you know, the biggeststar in the univer—in thewholegalaxy/universe is as big as anatom is small? Did you know that? Isn't that wild? That's morepotheadphilosophy.
People standing onescalators! And that is a testimony to humanlaziness! I mean, the guy who invented the escalator is just, probably, kicking himself in the ass. Do you think the guy made the escalator so people—and they're made likestairs—just so people stand on it so you go up and down? You're supposed towalk on 'em so you get therefaster. You know? And then people stand on there. So every timeI'm on an escalator, I'm just like, "Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me…." You know? That's my pet peeve, right there. And I'm gonnado something about it, and I'm urgingyou to do something about it! Write your congressman, get a group together, get together, and—I think we cando something about this.
I do feel like, kinda like a misfit; usually I feel, inside, I'm a misfit. Like, I don't really watchsports, or a lot of…
1:46–1:55
It seems like ourpolitics is soold, like, it almost seems like turning on thet.v. and there's ABC and CBS and NBC, and, y'know, there's like onenewspaper in town, and so they're all pushing things on us, and that's all going away.
5:10–5:28
Nick Gillespie: So, um, how do you self-describe politically? Krist Novoselic: I'm a, what, ananarcho-capitalistsocialist…I don't know…I'm kinda amoderate, I think I'm moderate. Nick Gillespie: So you're an anarcho-capitalist socialist moderate. Krist Novoselic: I mean I'm agun-owningpacifist, so there you go. I'm ananarcho-socialist—you know what I mean? Nick Gillespie: Anarcho-socialist— Krist Novoselic: —capitalist— Nick Gillespie: —capitalist, gun-toting… Krist Novoselic: Yeah, it's just like I, y'know, I just tryin'a, tryin'a make it work in this world and...basically I'm just a small-Ddemocrat.
11:30–12:03
Well, I think it just goes back to thevalues that I grew up with in thepunk rock world because it was thisdecentralised world, and so we just made our own way—like we'd beantigovernment or, you know—but we really didn't complain a lot; we were moreaction-oriented, like, people were publishingfanzines, we were setting upshows, we were getting invans and touringaround, and we were associating with otherpeople, so…y'know, I just like that idea.
11:43–15:10, about the value of decentralisation
I don't think thatcorporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be.
Yeah, I was aDemocrat for about four or five years—active Democrat—and I thought I couldreform the party; maybe I wasn't going about it right, maybe somebodycan and somebodywill, y'know? But I don't see it. It's just a top-down structure, it's a soft-money conduit, and, y'know, and likeNancy Pelosi, she's gonnalose theelection again, and it's just like, what's the definition ofinsanity? Doing the same thing—wrong, wrong thing—over and over again. Republicans, they have a real big demographicproblem, because they're the party ofoldwhite people, and they're not reaching out to folks.
20:00–20:38
Well, it was just—it seemed like it wasviolence, and, like, 'cause I went by some of the stores that, like, I don't reallyeat atMcDonald's, y'know, but a lot of people do, and so there are these people who want, y'know, they're-they'resocialists but theyhatepeople, y'know, so they go trash the McDonald's, and I just think it was just reckless violence, and they weren't tryin'a accomplish anything, and they said—he was writing something on the wall, some kind ofgraffiti that was juststupid and cliché, and I said, "Hey, how would you like if someone did that toyourhouse?" and he yelled back, "Fuck you!" and these other people started yelling "Fuck you!" at me; I'm, like, "Oh," like "I'm introuble."
Globalisation is agreat thing, and the genie's out of the bottle; it's called theInformationRevolution. It has a promise to bringopportunity and information to all corners of the world. It's awonderful thing.
29:41–29:55
If youhear asong you like, startdancing. That's what I do, I'll just start dancing, and that's it. That's all there is to it.
34:23–34:29
We weren't really interested in those bands; we were—because we came out of this subterranean scene. And thenNirvana breaks big, and it's just diametrically opposite: we have, like, facial hair, and just, kind of, logger shirts, but we're all, like, "sensitive" and "feminine"—you know what I mean?
36:00–36:19, about mainstream rockers of the 1980s
I ownguns. I think they're a good tool to have out in thecountry, and I should be able toprotect myhome and myfamily.
51:46–51:54
Ilike myguns. Yeah, because it just makes me morecomfortable.
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